... what will be your purpose in journeying?
To get to the other side?
Why do people climb Mt. Everest? It's certainly not because there's anything at the top they need.
No better reasons than these ...
WHAN that Aprille with his shoures soote
The droghte of Marche hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne,
And smale fowles maken melodye,
That slepen al the night with open ye,
(So priketh hem nature in hir corages:
Than longen folk to goon on pilgrimages . . . (Geoffrey Chaucer)
It puts a little Spring in your step.